ཕག་མའ་རྟགས་པ་བརྗད་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བའ་མད intro.11
The Exemplary Tale About a Sow intro.11
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The same could be said for the other three verses in The Exemplary Tale About a Sow. Although the extant Sanskrit version in the Divyāvadāna (one of the important collections of avadānas preserved in Nepalese manuscripts) does not contain these three verses,¹⁶ they are found in both the Tibetan and the Chinese translations and therefore must have been present in other Sanskrit versions of The Exemplary Tale About a Sow that circulated at the time these translations were made. These verses again have an even earlier attestation, since they occur together in the chapter on mindfulness in the Udānavarga, the Sarvāstivāda collection of the Buddha’s sayings that forms the Sanskrit counterpart to the Pali Dhammapada.¹⁷ The first of these verses reads: